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Building the Oktabriskaya Revolutsia

Pieces of cut down handrail were used for the struts under the tailplane and main wings and also to make the twin barrels of the aft cockpit machine guns. I utilised the interplane struts from a GMM PE fret-this ensured absolute symetry. When painted I applied some Soviet star decals from a Pitroad set-alas these had white centres-so I handpainted the inside of the stars in solid red. I rigged the aircraft with stretched sprue.







All the deckedge railings used were GMM Gold plus Superfine, coloured with a permanent marker with the individual stanchions picked out in hull colour, the black for and aft cables being very lightly drybrushed to tone them down.



Some of the upper levels and the bridge structure were furnished with more robust items from the Peter Hall fret. The figures are GMM, stairs and anchors are WEM, the interwar naval ensign is from the venerable GMM flag decal set